, 1887-12-15


and is the editor of the Columbia
Chronicle.
JAMES II. LEWIS.
James Hamilton Lewis, councilman
from the eleventh district. was born in
Danville, Va, May Is, 1862. He be-
gan his law studies in Savannah, Ga,
and completed them in the Columbia
law school; was first admitted, by
courtesy, to the supreme court of the
United States; came to Seattle in 1883
and has practiced law there ever since.
He was elected to the council in 1856.
He is democrat.
C.P. COOK.
G. p. Cook, councilman from the
Fifth district, was born February B,
1924, in Eda county, o.; was an officer
in the Mexican war; was forty-niner
to California was in Independence,
Oregon, from 1850 to 1867, and re-
moved 20 Yakima county, where he
has been engaged in stock business ;
was county auditor in 1868 was after.
wards county commissioner and school
superintendent was elected to legis-
lnture (house) in 1873: reelected in
~ tho co,nc;i He ia of ,;bpral f,;tb
married and has a family OF ten child
rem. He is democrat.
.'' rho"rsoS'
Walter j.. Thompson was born
Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, january
1858 went to Page county, Iowa, in
March, 1871, driving team overland; |;
worked at his trade until November;
then to Hebron, Thayer county, Me-
braska; was deputy county treasurer
for two years studied law and was adj
mitted to practice IN 1919 began bank,
ing, as private banker, III 1850, ana
until 1893 was engaged IN law practice
ana banking, together with many local
enterprises; Dought out the pahk OF
nc the Morobn,,s N,t;onn, hnnl, ,v;tL
Mr. Thomnson os nres;dent, He has
not nracticed law in Tacoma ,l,hongh
-, ,,,on,har nf ,ho h,r Ua I,ns ai,.,,s
refnsed nol;,;c,I ron,;r,,i,ns mil ,Le
nresont Tina IIa ia n,,rr;sd. has q
ian,iI,, of two oh;Idran. r,s hrom%lt
nm n Unitarian Ne i Grand high
nr;est of Masons If W,sbiSoton tori.
'or,,
r. u,v,rv
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~. .. iia"i1y' Ielleseh''i,s , hl'Ni."''
,orn August %. 1927. in Oneida conn
y, New York left in 1914. for Cook
Illinois, and in 1852 came di-
'ectly across the plains to Portland,
oregon resided at Forest Grove, Ore
,on, until the fall Of 1878, when he re-
moved TO klikitat county, where he
Ias since resided. His principal busi. |
iess is farming and stock raising. He |
: married and has II family Of seven
children. He is II member OF the Pres
" yteran church. This is lis first Of |
ice.
JOSEPH FOSTER.
Josenb Fos,.r nor,her of couroi,
ro,,, Kinos on,,,,,r ,,,s horn i,
On,nr;n' w 1903.
go n',,,, o,'aJ ~ oi'; ,,d,, 49,
,.a ,,oara,, III. ,,o,,, ~ C,,;l.,,.,, ~, ,I'o
',,, - 10. aa -, p,,oot S,,,'I l.,
S59 where he has 1ivnI ne,r Sant,ln
yer since; is II farmer: is married and |
las ii family OF two chlldren Is liberal |
n his religious convictions; is dem
,crat, and has served several terms in |
he territorial legislature, not consecu.
lively, beginning in 1858.
urspv pornr,
,,ni ~ ,1,. '
iiehry hoeaer, democratic imemDer
u ,he councii rom the t"ellth ois'
rlcl, was porn IN Germany sixty'thiee
ears ago ana at SIX years OF age DIS
a'nel, MO liao served against Napo'
bot his con ,,;,ht osc,na ,,,o con,.
,ulsory service in the German army.
rhe family located in Erie county,
ohio, where the child grew up to cast
lis first vote for James X. Polk. He
vent to Sacramento, California, in
$50, and in 1852 to Olymp pia, where |
,e took a canoe and paddled 10 What
.om where he still resides, and where |
10 erected the second saw mill on